Premier League: Saturday's matches – in pictures

All the best images from around the grounds where Arsenal and Man City kept up their pursuit of leaders Chelsea with contrasting home wins, while Hull thrashed Cardiff. West Ham earned a fourth straight win, and Fulham drew with West Brom in Felix Magath's first match in charge

Just before the hour mark Tim Howard makes a fantastic double save to deny Chelsea from taking the lead. Eden Hazard teases Gareth Barry on the edge, working some space to strike through a crowd of players, Howard gets down well, only for it to break to Branislav Ivanovic from three yards out, but Howard stands tall and takes a thunderous volley flush in the chest

It's pretty much even stevens as the match heads into injury time until Frank Lampard whips in a free-kick, scooting over the head of everyone and John Terry slides in and finds the faintest of toes to divert the ball past the Everton keeper and into the net. That's very harsh on the visitors who deserved at least a share of the spoils. Final score: Chelsea 1-0 Everton

If only he had shown as much accuracy with his shot. However it didn't matter in the end as the home side stayed resolute to record a win which means they keep up the pressure on title rivals Chelsea to stay three points behind the Premier League leaders. Final score: Manchester City 1-0 Stoke City

Arsenal v Sunderland Gunners legend Dennis Bergkamp had the honour of unveiling a statue of himself outside the Emirates. It didn't take long for the Arsenal faithful to pose for pictures with their hero's bronze likeness

Giroud notched again just after the half hour mark before Tomas Rosicky, right, added a third just before half-time. Laurent Koscielny turned it into a rout twelve minutes into the second half when he added a fourth. Emanuele Giaccherini pulled one back for the visitors with a fine strike with nine minutes to go but it was too little, too late. Final score: Arsenal 4-1 Sunderland

Hull's Tom Huddlestone looks rather chuffed to have opened the scoring after 18 minutes. His team-mate Nikica Jelavic added a couple more goals either side of half-time to put the visitors in the driving seat

Nikica Jelavic added a couple more goals either side of half-time to put the visitors in the driving seat, this is second and Hull's third. Nikica Jelavic scores the third goal for Hull. Jake Livermore added another ten minutes later to give Cardiff their biggest home reverse since Cambridge United won at Ninian Park back in April, 2000. Final score: Cardiff City 0-4 Hull City

Just before the half hour mark the visitor took the lead when Lewis Holtby and Hugo Rodallega both missed Kieran Richardson's cross which gave Ashkan Dejagah the time and space to control the ball and then fire the ball home from the edge of the box

New Fulham manager Felix Magath wouldn't have been happy to see the Cottagers robbed of their first win since New Year's day due to an error by their goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg. The keeper only get one hand to Matej Vydra's shot and the ball rolled slowly over the line before he could scoop the ball away. Final score: West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Fulham

Cole celebrates with fellow goal-scorer James Collins. The Hammers' fans and players were celebrating again after 72 minutes when Kevin Nolan added a third. Final score: West Ham United 3-1 Southampton

Robin van Persie makes a bit of a hash of this overhead kick but the United forward had more success in the 62nd minute when he slotted home his fourth goal in five games from the penalty spot after Patrice Evra was fouled by Marouane Chamakh

Wayne Rooney is having to face a torrent of abuse from the Palace crowd as well as a number of object being lobbed in his direction as he takes United's corners. Here he's handing over a coin thrown from the crowd to referee Michael Oliver either as evidence of what he's having to endure or enquiring as to what it is as following his new contract, he's not used to such small denominations

In the 68th minute Rooney gets his own back on the Palace fans when he doubles United's lead with a fizzing strike into the top right corner. It's a fabulous strike, his 209th for United and helps to give United their first away win of 2014 and Palace their first defeat of the year. Final score: Crystal Palace 0-2 Manchester United